Author: THORN, MICHAEL
Title: Pen Friends (Signed Copy)
Description: London, Macmillan. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333455681). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. A Very Good+ copy with light age darkening to page edges and evidence of erased 3 words (By Aug 12) to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is also VG+ and complete. An historical fiction which chronicles the friendship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based on a meeting in 1850 in Massachusetts where they were neighbours for a year. The book develops the two main characters through the history of their domestic lives and the last scenes are played out on the sands at Southport and at Liverpool pierhead. C3A. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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